Awards
- 1969: Alley Award for Best Writer.
- 1971: Shazam Award for Best Writer (Dramatic Division)
- 1973: Shazam Award for Best Individual Story ("Song of Red Sonja", with artist Barry Smith, in Conan the Barbarian #24)
- 1974: Shazam for Superior Achievement by an Individual
- 1974: Angoulême International Comics Festival Award for Best Foreign Author
- 1977: Favourite Comicbook Writer at the Eagle Awards
- 1977: Nomination: Favourite Single Comicbook Story at the Eagle Awards for Fantastic Four #176: "Improbable as It May Seem the Impossible Man is Back in Town" with penciler George Pérez
- 1978: Nomination: Favourite Writer at the Eagle Awards
- 1978: Nomination: Favourite Continued Story at the Eagle Awards for Star Wars #1-6 with George Lucas and Howard Chaykin
- 1979: Nomination: Best Comic Book Writer (US) at the Eagle Awards
- 1979: Nomination: Best Continued Story at the Eagle Awards for Thor #272-278 with John Buscema
- 1980: Roll of Honour at the Eagle Awards
- 1985: Named as one of the honorees by DC Comics in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great.
- 1996: Author That We Loved at the Haxtur Awards
- 2011: Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame
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